Meet our Therapists

Meet our Therapist Karin Kassab

Karin Kassab, MA, LPA, LCAS

Feeling stuck and miserable? It’s time to make a change. Karin Kassab, a clinical psychologist and co-owner of Clarity Counseling Center, is not the therapist who sits quietly and nods. Karin is energetic, ambitious, and her approach research-based and participatory. Her direct approach is coupled with her sense of humor and belief that therapy should be fun and valuable.

Her training, experience, and private practice include working with individuals to facilitate the learning of new coping skills that, eventually, lead to new ways of living and thinking, resulting in a more satisfying, productive, and peaceful life. Karin has a genuine passion for ‘helping people help themselves, and she works in a very collaborative and participatory manner. You’ll get feedback and valuable evidence-based skills in each session. She is dedicated to staying current and providing her clients with superior research-based care.

"I believe therapy should be fun and valuable."- Karin Kassab

Karin Kassab is an advanced generalist and loves working with millennials and individuals struggling with attachment issues, codependency, breakups, relationship issues, adulting, anxiety, and depression. Karin has a genuine passion for helping teens, millennials, and college students (especially UNCW and CFCC students) find their path. She specializes in working with adolescents who are stressed, gifted/overachievers, behaviorally disruptive, angry teens, self-harmers, and have low self-esteem.

She has specialized training in the treatment of eating disorders (anorexia, ARFID, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder). She helps individuals with eating issues live more joyful and peaceful lives. She knows that successful treatment of an eating disorder requires care, compassion, and a lot of support. Consistent with her therapeutic approach, she treats eating disorders with (CBT) strategies aimed at improving client quality of life through enhanced cognitive and emotional awareness and regulation. In the treatment of this population, Karin encourages a team approach to include clients, family members, psychiatrists, nutritionists, and primary care physicians working in collaboration to support clients during treatment.

Karin specializes in working with therapists, counselors, P.A.'s, nurses, M.D.'s, and other healthcare professionals. We call her the therapist FOR therapists. She has a keen awareness of the unique issues and stressors that often accompany healthcare professionals. She also understands the importance of professionalism and extreme confidentiality when working with medical professionals. She believes that individuals in the healthcare industry are often overworked, overstressed and are taught to self-deny.

Mrs. Kassab is passionate about helping busy business people, boss ladies, anxious entrepreneurs, and other stressed and pressured high-profile clients. Growing up around a family of self starters coupled by opening her own successful business, gives Karin unique insight into the stressors and phases of business and entrepreneurship growth and development.

"The most impactful thing that has come out of therapy with Karin is that I've become more confident in who I am. I've stopped apologizing for who I am and what I want. I've learned to stick up for myself and put myself first."

I came to Karin for therapy after being in a treatment center for two years. She encouraged me to follow my dreams and was a positive force in my life when others close to me were not. I appreciate her blunt honesty, compassion, and ability to show me the positive but realistic side of any situation. She gets how the real world works and the demons that come along with it.

Karin Kassab is not only my therapist, but my best friend. She has helped me tremendously over the past few years in dealing with my alcoholic mother and my deceased father, along with the dismantled family dynamics that came with all of that.

I came to Karin eight months ago after a rather devastating and, quite frankly, unbelievable exit was made from my life. I was mourning a loss and while I've never lost someone to death (thankfully)...

Choosing to come to Clarity was one of the best decisions I've ever made! Everyone who works here are so welcoming, compassionate and dedicated to what they do. I've learned so much through my sessions with Karin Kassab and it's truly been life-changing.

My experience with Karin was exactly what I needed and truly has helped reshape my life into a MUCH healthier and more balanced place – mentally and physically. I had been to a total of three therapists before meeting Karin. Some of them had a few useful things to say, but for the most part I was not able to gain anything significant from my time with them.

Karin Kassab has a passion and drive that is extraordinary! She is one of the most hard working individuals in the mental health community. Ms. Kassab's high energy and competent expertise is guaranteed to provide exceptional service and care. Ms. Kassab provides a unique style and creative space to make the client feel comfortable and expressive.